Famous Quotes & Sayings

It was an exciting game. There was a lot of good defensive fielding.

It was an excellent defensive effort. To hold a team to seven points in the first half, that's playing good defense.

It was an overall team (defensive) effort. The defensive line played great like always, the backers filled, and the secondary stayed on their coverage.

The second half, we started making our shots and picked up the defensive intensity.

Essence Carson

As a defensive team, that's what you want to see. You want to make them scramble. Just to see that look in their eyes, it made us see that we still had a chance.

Mike Rucker

As a defensive lineman you have to find yourself other ways to make plays and get yourself in the game,

As of right now, I'm more worried about the defensive end. Offense comes when you play good defense, so my main goal is just not let her score as much as she usually does, not let her get her 25.

As patient as we were early, we got into a streak when we were playing like we were behind. Then you toss in a few defensive breakdowns, and all of the sudden, we have ourselves a ballgame.

That was a big-time shot. If we come up with a defensive stop, you never know what might have happened.

That's where we lost the game, on the defensive end.

That's where toughness shows, on the defensive side of things. And I think that's exactly what happened tonight. I was real pleased with the defense, and the intensity level.

Jay Johnson

That's where I think we're much improved over last year is the defensive end of the court. Last year in a lot of games we relied on outscoring the other team. We won a lot of games in the 80s and even in the 90s.

That's not an excuse because we're going to see the same type of speed and defensive pressure every night in this district.

That's going to help them out a lot, with his defensive intensity. He gives them a lift.

That one surprised me, Every defensive lineman wants to run pass routes. I think it went very well.

Antonio Pierce

We've got a lot of quality right now. Get us a defensive tackle and a little more depth, and we'll be fine. We just need a guy to hold two guys off of us. Just a guy who'll be unselfish.

Tommy Tuberville

We've got a lot of guys that have size, speed and quickness. I always judge our recruiting by linemen and this has been an exceptional year. We're always looking for guys at defensive line. We feel like all eight of these guys will have a chance. It will depend on them... and their work ethic.

We had tired legs (from Thursday) so we had to pick it up on the defensive end. We know how to stay aggressive.

This week, we'll work on improving our shot quality and reassuring our defensive responsibilities. We have some tough district matches right off the bat, too.

This team just figures out ways to win games. We made some big defensive plays to stop rallies by them.

This team has really stepped it up and they've become a very good defensive team.

This was probably the worst defensive game we've had this year; this was horrendous. We just had a hard time executing anything we wanted to do (on offense) and sometimes our kids do that; let me know if you find out how to get them to do what you ask.

This was a football decision. It's harder to find a defensive end than running backs. When we looked at our team, we've got to get better on offense, but we've got to get better on defense, too. In eight games, we lost the lead in the second half because we couldn't rush the passer.

This was a disappointing way to open our season. We didn't play to our potential and (Roanoke Rapids) played a great defensive game. Hopefully we'll learn from our mistakes and be ready for Friday.

Tom Allen

We got a lot of guys in the mix at defensive tackle right now so we're not even 100 percent sure who the starters are going to be.

We just don't have enough personnel. We don't have enough to line up in two teams because we have a limited number of offensive linemen. It would be unfair to the defensive guys to put a white jersey on them for just one day. Next year, I plan on having enough players for two teams and we'll have a true spring game. But this year we just don't have enough players.

Arron Afflalo

We knew if we played at that pace, we weren't going to win. We're a pretty dominant defensive team right now.

We knew how tough they were at home, we knew how good of a team they were. We knew we were going to have to respond. It seemed like every time we needed to make a play or make a shot or get a defensive stop, we were able to do it.

I've never had a better defensive team in all the years I've coached. They get after it and play hard every possession.

Kelvin Sampson

They are a good defensive team. We were trying to score as much as we could, but they just wouldn't let us.

They always make sure they are in good defensive position. In the third period, we started getting that first man in hard, and good things happened.

There won't be anything complicated about what we do. We're going to keep it simple and just try to execute on offense and defense. At the same time, we're going to play some people at running back, receiver and on the defensive line to see what they can do.

The sad part for us is that we felt we played good. Our Achilles' heel is defensive rebounding.